Ciolek, T. Matthew. 1996. The Six Quests for The Electronic Grail: Current Approaches to Information Quality in WWW Resources.
Scheduled to appear in: "Review Informatique et Statistique dans les Sciences humaines (RISSH)", 1996, No. 1-4. Centre Informatique de Philosophie et Lettres, Universite de Liege, Belgium.

The Six Quests for The Electronic Grail:
Current Approaches to Information Quality in WWW Resources

T.Matthew Ciolek

Coombs Computing Unit, Research School of Social Sciences,
Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200 (Australia)
Fax: +61 (0)6 257 1893, E-mail: tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au

20 June 1996

Abstract

The paper reviews programming, procedural, structuring, bibliographical, evaluative and finally, organisational approaches to the quality of online information. Rapid progress in all these areas is essential to secure the Web as a reliable medium for scholarly publication.

Keywords

electronic publishing of scholarly works, WWW, information quality

Table of Contents

  1. The untrustworthiness of the WWW
  2. The urgency of the Web repair tasks
  3. WWW repair - Programming approaches
  4. WWW repair - Procedural approaches
  5. WWW repair - Structuring approaches
  6. WWW repair - Bibliographical approaches
  7. WWW repair - Evaluative approaches
  8. WWW repair - Organisational approaches
  9. Concluding remarks
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Bibliography
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